self renewal

explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.

rob hardy

Demons must be named to be defeated, just as our deepest and most vile urges or emotions must be acknowledged to be integrated

Θωμᾶς del Vasto (soul/acc) • Tweet

Standing for something isn’t just about writing it down. It’s about believing it and living it.

David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework

When you don’t trust yourself, you’re waiting to catch yourself in a mistake so you can pounce on your own certainty about how unworthy of trust you are. You get petty. You become fixated on your mistakes, and you keep a tally of those mistakes. In contrast, when you notice you’ve been numbing out all week beyond a level you’re comfortable with and

Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

-Margaret Mead

The more you thank God for the life you have, the more your life starts to look like the one you want.

Amanda Fortini • Tweet

There is no way of getting it perfect. There is no complete, no finish line, no done. There is simply “What’s the next experiment?” There is only play.

Joe Hudson • Tweet

Your dream projects might be dreams because they’re not formed in dialog with the world, not because they’re good ideas

Sasha Chapin • Tweet

Making the mental switch from "Oh no why are all these things happening at once" to "Yes, bring it on. Add another one. Let's go"

You will 10-100x your learning rate. I promise

Jake • Tweet

I've become fully convinced that the only way out of the doom loop is that people have to become absolutely obsessed with an idea that they think can realistically move the needle in a positive direction and they have to be borderline insane in their drive to make it happen